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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. FileMaker vs. H2 vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptiondBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.h2database.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencepouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencepouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAsthon TateClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleThomas MuellerOracleApache Software Foundation
Initial release19791983200520072012
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201919.4.1, November 20212.2.220, July 202314.1, August 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEPHPJava.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnoACIDconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno

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